HJNO Jan/Feb 2025

+ 12 Contents January / February 2025 I Vol. 14, No. 1 DEPARTMENTS Healthcare Briefs ................................................................................ 45 Hospital Rounds ................................................................................... 61 Ad Index .................................................................................................... 66 CORRESPONDENTS Nursing ...................................................................................................... 50 Medicaid .................................................................................................. 52 Children’s Health ................................................................................ 54 Senior Health ........................................................................................ 56 Medical Society .................................................................................... 58 FEATURES One on One ....................................................................... 8 Phyllis LeBlanc Peoples President and CEO Terrebonne General Health System WARNING! If You Are Convicted of Molesting a Child in Louisiana, the State Will Now Surgically Castrate You. Q&A with LA State Senator Regina Barrow .............................................................. 20 Changing the Care of Chronic Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Part B .................. 28 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent Midwives: An Age-Old Solution for a Timely Problem ...................................................... 34 Michelle Collins, PhD, CNM, RNC-EFM, FACNM, FAAN, FNAP Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Nursing and Health Dismantling Rural Access ............................................ 40 Mike Thompson Healthcare Policy Analyst & Media Liaison Louisiana Hospital Association 8 20